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Marianne Wilson
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| What's Happening! - i Give.com The Youth Group has signed up with iGive.com and iSearchiGive.com to continually earn money for our mission trips we would like to go on. It is quick, easy, and once it is set up, iGive.com will do the remembering for you when you shop to donate to our cause. SELECT your favorite cause 1st Presbyterian Church Youth Group. Register with iGive.com and SHOP at brand name online stores through the iGive.com Mall. A portion of each purchase is donated to your cause. SAVE money with exclusive coupons/free shipping deals. Plus, when you shop within 45 days of registering we'll donate an extra $5 to your cause!- Advent Festival-
December 20 10:30-12 is
pageant practice and lunch. From 12-2 is the advent
festival where the Nurture council has planned cookie
decorating, card making, games and fun for everyone. - Christmas Eve Services- 7:30 Traditional Christmas Eve Service with the Chancel Choir, and CANDLES for Silent Night. - Operation Christmas Child: Next week the youth will be assembling shoeboxes at their weekly meetings. Youth are invited to bring a few items for boxes listed at the link listed below. Participants are NOT required to bring in a complete box, only a few items that will be combined to create 3 boy boxes and 2 girl boxes. This is a great sharing project and it will help make Christmas much happier for some underprivileged childeren. |
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Current Projects: Bottle Box- bottles are returned and money is put in the general youth mission fund Family Promise Cleaning Kits- Now through November 2 we are collecting buckets filled with cleaning supplies for families to receive when they get placed in a new home. Supply lists can be found on the Youth Director’s Door. Please leave supplies in youth director office. Operation Christmas Child: Fill up a shoe box with small gifts like toys, hard candy, toothbrushes, school supplies, and hair accessories. We will be doing this in each youth group for a child their age. What a great way to start out the holiday season. Visit them online for even more information. www.samaritanspurse.org Prayer Partners: The Youth Council is hoping to begin a new, but simple program this year. The program is titled Prayer Partners. Essentially the youth of the church will be paired with a member of the church for both parties to pray for each other. This is a win-win effort. Some of these relationships will develop into closer, more meaningful relationships beyond prayer. The very worst case scenario is someone will be praying for you. If you support this program and wish to volunteer to be a partner contact the church office. We need as many volunteers as we have youth so please consider doing this wonderful endeavor. |
About Us
Pizza Plus is for youth in 4th
and 5th grade,
on Monday afternoons after choir rehearsal at 5pm to join in
fellowship. It is called
Pizza Plus because our favorite meal to have together is pizza and the
plus is for the fun we have! This
group’s focus is on meeting together to eat, play games, sing, and
begin learning about mission through smaller service projects like the
Crop Walk, Community Meals, and church clean up.
Currently there are 7 youth who plan to regularly attend the
group.
Our Junior High group is the
smallest of our youth groups right now.
Youth in grades 6th-8th meet Sundays at
4:30. At least once a
month they get together to share dinner between meetings with the
Senior High group. They
are at Confirmation age and are exploring their place in the church.
They are expected to participate in the church life as part of
Confirmation and therefore will be exploring this through trying
different opportunities in the church like ushering, greeting,
fellowship time, community meals, Family Promise, helping with
Senior High Youth Group is the
biggest and busiest group not just in school activities but youth
activities too. Between
collecting bottles, Crop Walk, visiting the nursing home, picking
apples for the food shelf, helping out with church events, MINC
Mission trip in the summer and
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